The theme of the article was a speculation that Southern LNG will abandon its plan to send 58 trucks a day out of their facility at Elba Island and instead receive 116 trucks of LNG per day, essentially doubling the risk to Savannah.

The article went on to describe the huge gas finds in the United States and plans to reverse flow in certain connecting gas pipelines. The implication is that if gas flows can easily be reversed, the LNG flows can easily be reversed.

Let me qualify my experience in LNG.

It has been 26 years since I left the job, but I was the first manager of the Trunkline LNG facility in Lake Charles, La.

The idea that making LNG from natural gas can be done easily is seriously flawed. Your readers well know the cost of cooling the air in their house from 95 to 75 degrees on a hot Savannah day. Imagine the energy required to cool natural gas to 260 degrees below zero.

The only American LNG import that has received federal (FERC) approval to convert to LNG export is the Sabine River LNG facility in Louisiana. The cost for that facility is estimated to be $6 billion.

My point is that making LNG is extremely energy and capital intensive.

An Elba Island liquefaction unit is very unlikely. Much more unlikely are tiny facilities to make LNG for export purposes and trucking them to Elba Island.

PHILIP A. TUREK

Savannah

Medical community should comply with ADA

Reply to the Jan. 21 letter from Judith Piros, M.D., “Kudos to Paula Deen.” I, too, appreciate Paula for being so open about herself.

I first met Paula at her Best Western Motel, Sunday brunch and her attitudes have not changed with success.

However, I am disappointed that you stopped with: “In fact it (type II diabetes) is the leading cause of new blindness in our country.”

My wife has been visually handicapped since 1971 from Sjogren’s Syndrome, so I have vast experience over the past 41 years with the medical and pharmacy industries, military and civilian. I have tried to get one thing across to the doctors, nurses, specialists and pharmacist, and that is that their computer systems are designed to service only those with correctable to 20/20 vision.

The military and most civilian systems do not have a field to input visual acuity and/or impairment. Places where she has been a patient for years give her forms to fill out that she cannot read.

I keep a list of her current meds, dosage, frequency, refills and prescribing doctor on our computer in Arial, Bold 24 point type so she can discuss the list with each necessary person. At the pharmacies she uses I have established a rapport and they have been using 30-year-old technology to enlarge the label.

What happened to the medical community’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) effective Jan. 1, 1990? Twelve years and nothing.

DAVID A. MAULE

Savannah

New movie unfairly depicts ‘Iron Lady’

Conservatives are not surprised that the pro-Obama media has enlisted George Stephanopoulos and John King to ask unfair questions of GOP debate participants. Fairness to conservatives just doesn’t exist.

The new movie “Iron Lady” about Margaret Thatcher, a woman we could well use to get rid of our incompetent and phony president, demonstrates liberal unfairness as well.

Whose old age will depict one in a good light? Thatcher in the film is interpreted from the view of a senile old women far past her prime.

Don’t believe a liberal even when he tells the truth.

NORMAN RAVITCH

Savannah

Unplugged: Farewell to meter readers

I’d like to write this letter to all Georgia Power associates.

As you are all aware, we will soon be installing the new digital meters. Therefore, we will no longer require the services of the meter readers. Now, since the meters can be turned on and off at headquarters, we will only need a few in our repair/meter pull crew. The vast majority will also be released. All of their managers and coordinating staff will no longer be needed.

Since the majority of our associates are leaving, we can certainly curtail our legal staff, saving lots more money. Heads up accounting. Due to this streamlining, we’ll probably outsource your services. Thank you for your years of faithful service.

Finally, with all this cost cutting, our risks will be greatly reduced, especially with the Savannah River Nuclear Power Plant addition. So all you stockholders take notice, you may want to realign your portfolios to exclude us.

I’m sure you’ll be fine without us. I hope you all prosper like I will this year.

PATRICK HUNTER

Savannah

Grandfather found spirit in the heartache

It has almost come to the one-year anniversary of my grandson Derek Snyder’s passing at Memorial Health University.

I live in Cedar Lake, Ind., and had never been to Savannah before. Let me say I experienced the biggest heartache I’ve every felt in losing Derek to a severe asthma attack. But I also experienced something else like never before.

In my most heartbroken days in Savannah, the citizens through their good mornings, hellos, smiles, holding doors for me and just being genuinely nice to me and one another made me smile inside.

I decided to bring a little bit of you and your spirit back home with me and spread it here. I can only say thank you for making a heavy heart feel a most heartwarming and uplifting of experiences.

To the entire staff at Memorial, it wasn’t for lack of trying that Derek passed. Your efforts were awesome.

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I have a smart meter and find them much easier to read than the old analog types. I also like the idea that there won't be a reader coming into my yard.

The downside isn't loss of privacy but they (Georgia Power) will probably try to use the smart meters installations for yet another charge added to everyone's electric bill and, most likely, the Republican controlled PSC board will grant Georgia Power, once again, whatever they ask for.